edit: Sources say the player is Jovan Belcher. Police have yet to confirm.

An unnamed Kansas City Chiefs player has committed suicide at the team facility and authorities are on the scene, the police confirmed to ESPN on Saturday morning.

Local reports say police are operating with the belief the player fatally shot his girlfriend at a house before driving to Arrowhead Stadium and killing himself at around 8 a.m local time. The Associated Press reported the player's age to be 25.

"We can confirm that there was an incident at Arrowhead earlier this morning," the Chiefs said in a statement. "We are cooperating with authorities in their investigation."

There were no other injuries at the team facility, police said.

The Chiefs (1-10) were preparing to host the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.

The NFL has told the Panthers to travel as planned to Kansas City on Saturday, the Charlotte Observer has reported, citing interim general manager Brandon Beane.

From the advertisers' perspective, why does it matter if weather is different than murder? Supposing the NFL had done the Chiefs-Panthers reschedule, the advert contract would still be breached due to an unforeseeable circumstance not contemplated by the parties (the advertisers and the tv channels): the situation being the NFL postpones a game because of a murder-suicide involving one of the players in that game. As anyone who has taken a first year law course in Contracts can tell you, breaches due to material, unforeseeable circumstances are valid excuses for nonperformance.

I get that this may tend towards why there should be a game, but I don't see why the contracts compel the game.

I'm not an expert on contracts, but I'm pretty sure that this doesn't qualify as an excuse for non-performance. If I'm an advertiser, I'd either demand my money back or that the ad be re-slotted to something else. If Fox moves the game, you're essentially asking them to pull another show off the air, which also depends on ad revenue.

I'm not an expert on contracts, but I'm pretty sure that this doesn't qualify as an excuse for non-performance. If I'm an advertiser, I'd either demand my money back or that the ad be re-slotted to something else. If Fox moves the game, you're essentially asking them to pull another show off the air, which also depends on ad revenue.

You're barking up the wrong tree, 'Zilla.

Literature and HMc, two ****ing retards, have the whole media contract and 20 other issues with moving an NFL game all figured out.

I'm not an expert on contracts, but I'm pretty sure that this doesn't qualify as an excuse for non-performance. If I'm an advertiser, I'd either demand my money back or that the ad be re-slotted to something else. If Fox moves the game, you're essentially asking them to pull another show off the air, which also depends on ad revenue.

Oh, I think you would get your money back (in prevention of an unjust enrichment). But I don't there's specific performance [compel the game!] or damages that result from nonperformance.

Literature and HMc, two ****ing retards, have the whole media contract and 20 other issues with moving an NFL game all figured out.

Let the experts handle it and don't waste your time.

You're the only one that claims to have it all figured out, Dane. You're the one claiming to have specific knowledge of the contracts.

The rest of us just think the NFL could have moved it if they wanted to. The evidence (that games have been moved before, and the articles that say the NFL spoke to the Chiefs yesterday about this very game) suggests that is true.

But because your self-worth is exclusively linked to being a big guy on Chiefsplanet, you won't drop it.